8 Expert Reviews for Nokia Asha 306

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Nokia Asha 306 review: Smartphone Ash-pirations

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30 Sep 2012 | gsmarena

In a shrinking featurephone market, the Nokia Asha lineup is trying to deliver a near-smartphone experience with less complexity and, more crucially, at a more attractive price point. The Asha 306 slots just above the middle of the pack - delivering a......

Verdict: When you think of web browsing on a phone, you are probably imagining 4+" screens, LTE speeds and blazing benchmarks, but it`s actually a phone like the Nokia Asha 306 that can really bring Internet connectivity to the masses - Nokia`s "next billion"...

Having long slipped from its pedestal as the world`s premier mobile phone manufacturer, Nokia has been trying to make up lost ground with some attention-grabbing high-end smart phones like the 808 PureView with its 41 (count `em!) megapixel camera, but is also keeping its end up at the volume end of the market, with cheap n cheerful workhorses for the masses. Enter the Nokia Asha 306, which comes out at the same time as the Asha 311 and is the le...

Natasha Lomas

Nokia Asha 306 review

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31 Aug 2012 | cnet

With the old Series 40 software on board, the Nokia Asha 306 is already a smart phone with usability strings attached. But it`s biggest shortcoming is no 3G, which throttles speeds when you`re not able to use Wi-Fi. It`s also nowhere near cheap enough......

Verdict: The Asha 306 is a very basic kind of smart phone but it`s biggest shortcoming is not having 3G, which throttles web browsing speeds when you`re out and about. If you`re a fan of Nokia`s Series 40 software and like the look of its all-touch Ashas,......

Nokia Asha 306 Review

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| recombu

The Nokia Asha 306 is the second Nokia OS phone we`ve seen. We like where Nokia have taken their feature phone touch OS and the Asha 311 did have some really compelling features, at over u00a3100 though, it just isn`t competitive with Android handsets in......